Professor John Mfune is an Associate Professor and Head of Biological Sciences Department at the University of Namibia. He has taught at a tertiary level for more than 20 years. His wide-ranging research interests include human-wildlife conflicts, host-parasite interactions, and climate change. He is actively involved in environmental policy issues in Namibia, and helped to draft the Namibia Climate Change Policy and associated Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan. He also led the team who developed the Namibian National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2011-2020. He was recently awarded a research grant from START to conduct collaborative research on ‘Water security in Windhoek: governance, water demand and supply, and livelihoods in the context of urbanization and climate change’.
